Lighting Visualization Gallery

Residential Building

The following images were among the first presentable
results from the Rayfront beta tests. The designer,
a student of architecture at the Swiss Federal Technical
Institute of Technology ETH, used ArchiCAD to build the
model, then converted the geometry with Paul Bourke's
translator. The so created file was directly imported
into Rayfront and the final results can be seen here.

South Elevation

Rayfront gives you complete liberty in defining your
views (or "cameras"). Setting up a front elevation view is
very simple, and the resulting image required only minimal
postprocessing just to add a plain grey background. Note
that this image shows a slightly different design than
the ones above.

Corner View

The building is modelled with fine details, such as the
metal hand rails on the balconies and correctly constructed
window frames. Although it is easy to overlook such efforts
in the resulting image, they contribute a lot to the
overall appearance of a simulation.

Front View

The expressive volumetric composition is presented very
well by a program explicitly targeted at lighting simulation.

Material Detail

A procedural pattern renders all exterior walls as
cement brick masonry.
The black undersights of the cantilever slabs appear
to come from assigning the same pattern as to the walls,
while the chosen procedure can only handle vertical
surfaces. It would be no problem for an experienced user
to generalize this function for all orientations.
Note that this image shows a slightly different design
than the ones above.